Author: Coalition of Immokalee Workers

New report unearths extensive rights abuses on farms certified by Equitable Food Initiative and Fair Trade USA, calls for worker-driven solution

New report unearths extensive rights abuses on farms certified by Equitable Food Initiative and Fair Trade USA, calls for worker-driven solution

[caption id="attachment_36715" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers at the CIW's 5-day, 50-mile march from the farming community of Pahokee, Florida, to Palm Beach earlier this spring prepare to carry a papier mache globe portraying "the two parallel worlds that exist side-by-side within the farming community: the world of freedom from abuse on farms in the Fair Food Program and the world of >> Read More
How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

[caption id="attachment_37533" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers on a participating farm in Georgia participate in an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session on their rights under the Fair Food Program, including discussion of the Program's best-in-class heat illness protections.[/caption] Leo Perez, CIW: "We see the Fair Food Program as... both a method of education... to share information with workers about these risks, and at >> Read More
Lupe Gonzalo’s journey from the fields to the forefront of human rights

Lupe Gonzalo’s journey from the fields to the forefront of human rights

Lupe Gonzalo in Rebel Girls: "Food doesn’t come to the grocery store by magic. It comes from people. It comes from farmworkers.” ALSO: Congratulations to longtime CIW and FFP ally Susan Carter, much-deserved recipient of the Alvin R. Huntley Social Justice Award! As recognition grows for the remarkable trajectory of the Immokalee farmworker community over the past 30 years -- >> Read More
CIW Co-Founder Lucas Benitez to receive Wallenberg Medal for achievements in human rights on October 10, joining the company of previous medal recipients Rep. John Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama among others

CIW Co-Founder Lucas Benitez to receive Wallenberg Medal for achievements in human rights on October 10, joining the company of previous medal recipients Rep. John Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama among others

[caption id="attachment_37461" align="aligncenter" width="900"] CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CIW Co-Founder Lucas Benitez to receive Wallenberg Medal for Achievements in Human Rights on October 10, joining the company of previous medal recipients Rep. John Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama among others Lucas Benitez: “I am immeasurably honored and humbled to receive >> Read More
Action Alert: Demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program today!

Action Alert: Demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program today!

Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation! Today is the day to demand justice for farmworkers by contacting Kroger and demanding the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program! A year ago today, the notorious crewleader of Los Villatoros’ harvesting company, Bladimir Moreno, pleaded guilty to the federal charge of conspiracy to commit forced labor. Under Moreno, more than >> Read More
Five ways to pressure Kroger to join the Fair Food Program

Five ways to pressure Kroger to join the Fair Food Program

We are just two days away from the call-in day of September 27, when the Fair Food Nation will call on Kroger to demand they join the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program in light of well-documented cases of modern-day slavery in Kroger’s supply chain.  Ready to go? Here are five ways YOU can join farmworkers and the Fair Food Nation >> Read More
“Food, Inc. 2”, sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary, showcases Fair Food Program as model solution for a more just food industry!

“Food, Inc. 2”, sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary, showcases Fair Food Program as model solution for a more just food industry!

[caption id="attachment_37411" align="alignright" width="900"] Gerardo Reyes Chavez (center) works in the fields in the upcoming documentary Food, Inc. 2[/caption] Watch the trailer for the upcoming "Food, Inc. 2," featuring the CIW and the  Fair Food Program as a model solution to our nation's broken food system!  The much-anticipated sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary "Food, Inc." recently premiered at the >> Read More
SAVE THE DATE SEPT 27: Call Kroger and demand the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program!

SAVE THE DATE SEPT 27: Call Kroger and demand the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program!

Stand with farmworkers on September 27 for a virtual action to demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program!  Action alert! Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation!   A year ago the notorious crewleader of Los Villatoros’ harvesting company, Bladimir Moreno, pleaded guilty to the federal charge of conspiracy to commit forced labor. Under Moreno, more than a dozen workers were >> Read More
The Fair Food Program adds corn to growing crop list, continues expansion in Colorado!

The Fair Food Program adds corn to growing crop list, continues expansion in Colorado!

[caption id="attachment_37363" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Sunrise at Tuxedo Corn, CO[/caption] Montrose Daily Press: "The [Fair Food Program] provides workers with a means of making complaints, which has led to people speaking out against abuses..." CIW's Leo Perez: "The basis of this program is that workers have the information and the tools they need to actually implement and apply their rights in >> Read More